New Standards Project - Sample Reading List
Middle School

| Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry | Drama | Folklore/Mythology |
| Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Magazines and Periodicals | Other |


Fiction:

Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

Armstrong, Sounder

Baghold, National Velvet

Bonham, Durango Street

Cohen, Tell Us Your Secret

Collier, My Brother Sam Is Dead

Cormier, l am the Cheese

Craighead, Julie of the Wolves

Danziger, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Fast, April Morning

Gaines, AGathering of Old Men

Gardiner, Stone Fox

George, Sign of the Beaver

Gibson, Old Yeller

Goldman, The Princess Bride

Greene, Summer of My German Soldier

Hansen, Which Way Freedom

Hinton, The Outsiders

Holman, Slakes Limbo

Hunt,  Across Five Aprils

London, The Call of the Wild

Mathis, Listen for the Fig Tree

Mohr, Nilda

Neufeld, Lisa, Bright and Dark

O’Brien, Z for Zachariah

Patterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

Reiss, The Upstairs Room

Rowling, -- Harry Potter Books

Say, Grandfather's Journey

Say, Tree of Cranes

Schaefer, Shane

Steinbeck,  The Red Pony

Stevenson, Treasure Island

Voigt, Dicey’s Song

Walker, Sarah, Plain and Tall

Walker, To Hell With Dying

Walter, Because We Are

Zindel, The Pigman


Non-Fiction:

Amory, The Cat Who Came for Christmas

Berck, No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children

Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

George, The Talking Earth

Gilbreth, Cheaper by the Dozen

Haskins, Outward Dreams

Hautzig, Endless Steppe: A Girl in Exile

Herriott, All Creatures Great and .Small

Lester, To Be a Slave

Meyers, Pearson, a Harbor Seal Pup

Soto, Living Up the Street

White, Ryan White: My Own Story

Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man


Poetry:

Adams, Poetry of Earth and Sky

Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Frost, You Come Too

Greenfield, Night on Neighborhood Street

Livingston, Cat Poems

Silverstein, -- Silverstein Books


Drama:

Blinn, Brian’s Song

Davis, Escape to Freedom

Gibson, The Miracle Worker

Lawrence and Lee, Inherit the Wind

Osborn, On Borrowed Time

Shakespeare, AMidsummer Night’s Dream

Stone, Metamora, or, the Last of the Wampanoags


Folklore/Mythology:

Blair, Tall Tale America

Bruchac, The First Strawberries: ACherokee Story

Bryan, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

D’Aulaire, Norse Gods and Giants

Gallico, The Snow Goose

Lee, Toad Is the Uncle of Heaven: AVietnamese Folk Tale

Pyle, Merry Adventures of Robin Hood


Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction:

Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Babbitt, Tuck Everlashing

Cooper, The Grey King

Hamilton, The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl

L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Tolkien, The Hobbit

Yep, Dragon of the Lost Sea


Magazines/Periodicals:

Scope (Scholastic)

World(National Geographic)

Junior Scholastic (Scholastic)

Science World(Scholastic)

Cobblestone (American history)

Calliope (world history)

Faces (anthropology)

Odyssey (science)


Other:

Computer manuals; instructions; contracts. See also the reading lists included in award books corresponding to reading provided by the Girl Scouts of America and the Boy Scouts of America.